On Wed, 08 December 1999, Randy Bush wrote:

the operational issue is not y2k this or that. the issue for ops folk is that it is a change being made during what is anticipated to be the worst part of the the y2k window which could be made some other time. this means that, if it is visible in any way, it can be confused with y2k symptoms thus adding to real operators' (as opposed to nanog posters') debugging problems at what may be a bad time.

I'm not a big fan of making changes that night, but this was announced several months ago at IETF, NANOG and several mailing lists. I didn't hear anyone object to the schedule when it was announced. I did hear people complain about the RADB maintainer fee, so people were listening. For better or worse, is it getting a bit late to go changing the schedule? Is anyone still using the ripe-181 version of the IRR?